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Vibrant Matter: An interview with Sophia Vigne-Welsh and Pia Mršek
Lara Curran interviews the Irish painter Vigne-Welsh and the Slovenian sculptor Mršek about their upcoming exhibit at Galeria Augustine in Santa Apolónia and learns how two different approaches gelled in Lisbon.
Old Lisbon: Casa Africana
Velvet, wool, ready-to-wear, and an offensive mascot helped this former department store dominate Rua Augusta for over a century.
Mental Health Relief in Lisbon: The Ins and Outs
The road towards a healthy mind and a happy heart is long and arduous enough. The last thing anyone needs is for the banality of paperwork and appointments to become another impassable struggle in a world of struggles.
Abandoned Portugal: The Palácio do Rei do Lixo
Hell, witches, trash, fires, and ghosts? There’s more to see in Coina than meets the eye.
Portugal set to u-turn on golden visa axe? | International Advisor
It wouldn’t be the first time. Or the second.
Hell Is Other People: Já International Theatre’s “No Exit”
Adapted and directed by Suresh Nampuri, Sartre’s classic takes influence from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities.
Americans are leaving Portugal as golden visa honeymoon ends | Bloomberg
“From language barriers and bureaucratic challenges to housing costs that have been driven higher by foreign investment, some expats say that life in Portugal hasn’t met their expectations,” Bloomberg writes. Color us surprised! Related:
Ripping Perception to Shreds with Filmmaker Alexandre Alagôa
Alexandre Alagôa’s film When I Close My Eyes I See Everything sets out to strip away the contexts and references that muddle and complicate our experience of vision.
Festas de Lisboa 2023: Marches, Pimba, Sardines, and More
If you’re in Lisbon, things are about to get very colorful and loud.
Lisbon Ranked as Millionaire Hotspot | The Portugal News
If you are looking for properties costing €40,000 (per square meter, not the whole place) — or more — you may need to go to Paris, but here in Lisbon we got some for around $30K/sqm.
Lisbon’s Best Eurovision Party is Happening in Almada
Saturday’s Eurovision viewing party will be made complete by local Portuguese drag queens, Palestinian dabke dancers, and attendees from all over.
Seeing Lisbon with Museum Guides Leading Walking Tours
Until October, four themed walking tours will help people discover how Lisbon was built and experienced over different periods of the city’s history. David Felismino of the Museu de Lisboa shares his thoughts with Atlas.
